Plume Issue #169 September 2025

John Brooks, Hello Friend From the Road 66 x 80_2023

  • An interview with Anthony Seidman from Ramón García

    Anthony Seidman is a poet translator from Los Angeles. Seidman's collections of poetry include A Sleepless Man Sits Up in Bed (Black Spring Press) and That Beast in the Mirror (Black Herald Press),
    Featured Selection
  • Three Poems

    There, roots are
  • Sven Birkerts on Mark Strand’s poem, “The End”

    I don’t know why this should be, but I find that many important things—I think of them as personal messages—come to me obliquely.
    Essays and Comment
  • Trio of Bloom, “Unreal Light” performed by Craig Taborn, Nels Cline and Marcus Gilmore, Produced by David Breskin

    produced by David Breskin
  • Zubieta, Laux, Martin, et. al.

    María José Zubieta on translating Idea Vilariño: Translating Idea Vilariño’s verses was not only an homage to one of the…

    The Poets and Translators Speak
  • Translated from Spanish by María José Zubieta

    Como el que desvelado
  • Night Pieces

    The hickories live close by—
  • A Brief Portfolio

    Shoulders slouched, neck one step ahead of her body,
  • Rembrandt and the Great Drought

    Before your birth, of course, the drought
  • Instinct

    No matter,              nothing could help me make sense
  • Two Poems

    burdens are from 
  • False Elegy

    I sometimes feel as if my mother has died and I’m free to reminisce her final months.
  • Why are white butterflies always in pairs

    Above the Morning Glory.  I’ve wondered this
  • Practically Home

    Practically home holds no promise of arrival.
  • Two Poems

    In reading I Decipher These marks
  • The Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly reviewed by Michael Collins

    Stanley Plumly’s Collected Poems gathers together an essential body of work, influential and memorable for its ongoing development of poetic form and practice.
    Book Review
  • Two Poems

    My brain is such a bully—wash your face, comb your hair,